With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.
FLOOD Staff

The Asheville rockers are in the midst of a North American tour in support of last year’s Rat Saw God LP.

Joe Pernice performs “December in Her Eyes” and “How Will We Sleep” from the project’s forthcoming LP Who Will You Believe in Ontario.

The founder of the record label turned creative marketing agency shares a playlist featuring IHC artist Matt and Kim as well as classic tracks from INXS, Janet Jackson, and more.

The sibling duo brave the winter cold to play through the track from their recent Suburban Legend LP in their backyard.

The Leeds-based post-punks closed out 2023 with a brief set of dates in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan—which they documented for us in photos.

Wombo, Crystal Egg, Brian Brown, Mali Velasquez, and Sewing Club also played the sold-out reproductive-justice benefitting event at DRKMTTR, with Total Wife, DJ Loveless, and Snõõper providing DJ sets.

On the heels of releasing their sixth LP Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations, the London post-punks spin Kate Bush, Dirty Projectors, and more.

And…No Doubt.

The UK art-punks document their brief set of dates in Asia to close out a year of touring their second LP, O Monolith.

The electro-rock four-piece play through the single from their forthcoming debut album Effigy in a beer garden in Hackney.

The veteran booking agent spins tracks by Nick Hakim, Stephen Sanchez, Arooj Aftab, and more.

Subtitled “Women in Rock Shaping Feminism,” Katherine Yeske Taylor’s book is out January 16 via Backbeat Books.

Bailey Crone plays through the new single with her band before they head to SXSW in March.

The band kicks off 2024 for us with a takeover featuring Drab Majesty, Nation of Language, Cocteau Twins, and more.

The Manchester-based dance-punk collective shares photo highlights from their brief set of December dates here in the US.

Joined by vocalist Sarah Rossy and guitarist Jack Broza, the bassist plays the track “I’ll Ask Anyway” from her debut record Outsider, Outlier on a sunny day in New York City.

40 of our favorite live shots from the year including boygenius, Arctic Monkeys, Weyes Blood, The Cure, Kendrick Lamar, Turnstile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more.

10 movies that feel bolder with every repeat viewing.

10 series that continued to push the medium forward.

Peggy Gou
From Peggy Gou and OPN to Yard Act and Arlo Parks, here are the songs we couldn’t stop spinning over the past 12 months.